EXCELLENT MAJESTIC SHOW, TO-NIGHT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 2

EXCELLENT MAJESTIC SHOW, TO-NIGHT.

Picture-goers will miss a great treat if thev fail to see ' The Gonstant Nymph" while it is being shown at Majestic Theatre. An adaptation of the novel by Margaret Kennedy, not only was the hook a "best-seller" but its dramatisation mad© a successful V\cst End play which subsequently won immense popularity in the provinces. Ihe picture captures and retains the "atmospheren of th© exccllcnt^ story, and as a production places British pictures high in tlie estimation of those critics who, until recently, were loth to admit that home productions were comparable with foreign pictures. "The Constant Nymph" has very emphatieally turned the tables upon those who take a pleasure in decrying home products. The acting is upon a high level. Mabel Poulton's charactcrisation of "Tessa, is the finest ever achieved by a British screen actress. Ivor Novello,_as the erratic "Lewis Docld," also gives a fine performance. "The Constant Nymph is a film that we can whole-heartedly recommend. Again in a strong, handsome and heroic role. George O'Brien will he seen in the Fox production of "Blindfold." This time George is a policeman, a role he long has wanted to play. This actor shouid know liis policemen, having beeri reared in the shadows of the San Fra'ncisco police station. His father is chief of police there. "The average citizen," George said when production of the film started, "looks upon a cop as a necessary evil — the kind that talks out of the corner of his mouth and indulges in theatricalism in his 'pinches.' 1 want to show him as I know him — a good scldier oheying his superiors, and offering his body as u buffer between you and the rough side of life. My father is much interested in this role of mine and is assisting me in my rnterpretation. Police work is his one fad in life, and naturally he is anxious that I give the real 'low down' on police methods." The leading feminine role in "Blindfold" is played by the petite Lois Moran of "Stella Dallas" and Fox Films studio fame. Others include Earle Foxe, Fritz Feld and two new Fox "finds," Don Terry and Maria Alba. The story was directed by Charles Klein and written for the screen by that teller of vivid tales, Charles Francis Coe. Plan at the Bristol Theatre, 'phone, 2708.